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Popular professional social network LinkedIn has launched some improvements to the search feature of LinkedIn Recruiter, its tool for recruiting passive job candidates. The search feature now comes with a new dynamnic refinement tool, which gives users the ability to more quickly break down candidates according to the precise expertise, geography, education, and industry background you're looking for.

"Recruiters fully recognize the value of passive candidates (60% of them said they get better hires when hiring passive talent) and realize what a great source of passive talent LinkedIn represents (93% said that the site that they have used most successfully to hire is LinkedIn)," says LinkedIn's Esteban Kozak.

Kozak lists the following as key benefits to the new and improved LinkedIn Recruiter search:

- Guided navigation
- More intuitive
- Increased Efficiency
- Reduced Complexity

Opinions on the new search feature range from impressed to unimpressed (go figure). If the following tweet about it is any indication, there may be some potential spam issues that need resolving (though this is not confirmed).

A couple of comments on Kozak's post announcing the feature suggest that it's just using boolean operators and is not complex, but Kozak says the new feature is very different.

"To the contrary, it allows you to construct complex queries in a very intuitive user interface that refreshes the attributes and respective counts on every click," he says. "It guides you to a set of actionable results very quickly without entering a single Boolean operator."

Either way, you can get a look at it yourself and decide what you think. Feel free to share that opinion here.